The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-25

old times, snch as the days OF Calico, they
would have the power to order him to be
sent to Rome in chains, and to be con-
demned to jail during the good pleasure
OF the incubation, for teaching that the
earth feyolV yes around the sun.
THE lawyer goes on 10 gay that II DR..
MCGlynn 10 COntumaCiouR and defiant he
would probably receive no favor hereafter
in seeking rehearing Of his cause, |
have no intention, or deaire, oil seeking
such q EsheaEiRg-at laaat not until the
Roman authorities shall have been taught
by more bitter experiences than they
have yet had, to mind their own spiritual
business at home, and to interfere lees
with diplomacy and politics in Italy, Ger
many, Poland, Ireland and America,
while leaving us, and other people, to take
care OF our political economy and politics,
aud even OF our religion, unless in the
grsyest cases oil clear departure from the
upquestioned dogmatiC teaching Of the
church.
aCANnALoUs INCARCERATION OF THE
CHURCH.
What the Catholic lawyer says DR.. Nc
Glynn should tell the Roman authorities,
| say that have already told them IN .
published statement The picture which
the Catholic lawyer draws Of the intelleo
tuai joust, or tournament, between me and
the elevated collects which surround the
throne Of Leo XIII, IL, to one who knows
Rome as do, as iaughable as the GleVeFest
Caricature Of Puck, 80 Ia also what he says
of the independence which the court at
Rome guarantees to me i'll appear before It.
Tho determination has been made per-
ieCt!y clear in advance by Cardinal Simeon!
and the Pope not to confer with me or
evOn to Try me, but to puniah, to humIIiate
and condemn. The Catholic lawyer can
hardly know as we'll as | the merciE,Fs
and obsLinRe consistency to the Roman
ecclesiastical machine in sticking to the
errors Of policies and poiitica when they
are in the interest Of the ambition oil tenn
poral power aud peCunIary interest Of the
machine ITSELF even at the expense OF
sacrificing the faith and the religion OF
whole nations, and opposing the most
natural aspirations OF the people for
national development, scientific progress
and national liberty.
"Ihe Catholic lawyer can hardly BIO
aware, 40 l am, that Archbishop Croke,
but few years ago, In great crisis oil
tho Irish people, WAS summoned to Rome
not for consultation or conference, but
simply to be snubbed and insulted by
Pope and Propaganda, and that the Pope,
having received sufficient information
nbont Ireland from ErIington and other
English lunkieS in Rome, refused even to
listen to him when he tried to explain
matters. Archbishop CToke stayed but
three or four days in Rome, and left in
disgust 90 speedily Rg possible.
| Ills OUTLINE FoR WORK OF REFORM,
"The Catholic lawyer, in common with
many Others, makes the mistake OF at.
ttrlbuting to the Roman machine an intel.
ligence and virtue, and q siDgle-minded
devotion to spiritual interests, in all Of
which the machine is ludiCrouaty wanting
for one that assumes to speak in the name
oil tho luWly Savior, who paid: My king
dom ia not Of the world | am not 10
fooliBh or presumptuous Gg to 0uppoGe
that any argument Of mine, even in the
intellectual tournament iuauguratod by
the Catholic lawyer, could hsYa any odeC:
in diminishing the stupidity. in en!ight-
ening the gross Ignorance or bending the
obstiuGUCy OF that roLentlesa machine.
This can only bo done by great provi-
dental Chaugea that will break, crush Rnd
impovorish the Roman machine and re.
duCs the Roman Bishop to the extra0rdi'
nary simplicity OF Leo l, or Gregory L.,
both OF whom are Justly designated by
the surnama Of great, who hnd no tenn.
porsl power, but we're extraordinary BiBh.
ops, full OF the spirit oil their Master, and
looking alter the poor, and providing for
tho propagation OF the ieith.
feel that CIn do my humble share to.
ward bringing about 90 desirable q con-
Illumination rather by opposing and defy.
ing the unjust enCr0GChments OF the lto'
man machine for power, than by aubmlt.
ting TO ouch 0nCroRChmentB.
A porAL AMBASSADOR AT WASHINGTON.
10 the Catholic lawyer aware Of what l
can tell him on the highest authority, that
the Roman machine ia to-day more
anxious TO have an Ambassador OF the
Pope, accredited to and received by tho
Government at Washington Such an
ambassador would BIO an Archbishop and
one OF the Italian ring, in whose hands it
10 the Roman policy TO keep the power
Eip presence there could not fail to bU a
fruitful source OF corruption and erglave.
ment for the Catholic Church in this
country.
The Pope is also trying to have diplo-
matte relations with Queen Victoria, in
order, as he Is alleged to have said, 10 BIZ
able to get accurate information about
Irish aGaiEs. Whatmu9t our Irish friends
think OF this2 The fact is that tho best
way for Catholic people, whether here, in
Ireland or elsewhere, to get proper troat'
meEt from tho Roman machine is rather
10 defy it than to DO too submissive to it.
"Revi8wing the maxim 0! tho ancient
pagan Roman TO spare the Lowry and to
beat tho proud, the modern Roman
machine tohdies to the proud and wealthy,
and kicks the lowly In the mouth. The
engineers OF tho Roman machine, who
are profting by ftB power and ita emola
menls, are really laughing in their eleeves
at us for our excessive BubmiBaiveness to
their power, and for our excessive genef-
osily in contributing tho Peters pence 10
the support Of the whole army OF laCkeys
and funkies, both lay and clerical, who
aurround tho Pope with barbRriC pomp
scarcely equsled by that OF any imperial
dCgpotiC court"
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